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OPTICS AND OPTICAL PHENOMENA
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• aberration of starlight
• absorptance
• absorption
• accommodation
• achromatic lens
• active optics
• adaptive optics
• after-image
• Airy disk
• albedo
• anastigmat(ic)
• angle of incidence
• angle of reflection
• angle of refraction
• Antoniadi scale
• aperture
• apochromat(ic)
• astigmatism
• atmospheric extinction
• atmospheric refraction
• averted vision
• Barlow lens
• Benham's disk
• binoculars
• Bragg angle
• Bragg's law
• Brandon eyepiece
• Brewster's law
• Brocken specter
• camera
• camera lucida and camera obscura
• candlepower
• chemiluminescence
• chromatic aberration
• collimator
• color
• coma, optical
• concave
• contact lenses
• contrast
• convex
• corrector plate
• coudé focus
• critical angle
• crown glass
• curvature of field
• dark adaptation
• Dawes' limit
• depth of field
• dextrorotatory
• diffraction
• diffraction grating
• diffraction pattern
• diffraction-limited
• dispersion
• distortion
• Doppler effect
• double refraction
• doublet
• eidetic image
• entrance pupil
• EUV
• exit pupil
• extended wear contact lenses
• eye relief
• eyepiece
• eyepoint
• Fabry lens
• Faraday rotation
• field curvature
• field lens
• field of view
• field stop
• figuring
• filter
• flat
• flat field
• flint glass
• fluorescence
• focal length
• focal plane
• focal point
• focal ratio
• focal reducer
• fringing
• ghost image
• holography
• image
• image tube
• incandescence
• interference
• interference pattern
• iridescence
• laevorotatory
• laser
• laws of reflection
• lens
• light pollution
• luminance
• luminescence
• luminous flux
• luminous intensity
• magnification
• magnifying glass
• meniscus lens
• microscope
• Mie scattering
• mirage
• mirror
• monochromatic
• Nasmyth focus
• Newton's rings
• Nicol prism
• nulling
• objective
• optical activity
• optical axis
• optical interferometer
• optics
• penumbra
• periscope
• phosphorescence
• photodissociation
• photoelectric effect
• photometer
• photometry
• photopolarimeter
• plano-concave lens
• plano-convex lens
• polarimeter
• polarimetry
• polarization
• polarized light
• Poynting-Robertson effect
• primary mirror
• prime focus
• prism
• Purkinje effect
• radiation pressure
• rainbow
• Ramsden disk
• Rayleigh criterion
• Rayleigh scattering
• reflecting telescope
• reflection
• reflection, laws of
• refracting telescope
• refraction
• refractive index
• refractometer
• resolution
• resolving power
• Rochon prism
• scattering
• seeing
• segmented mirror
• shadow
• spherical aberration
• stereoscope
• telescope
• thermoluminescence
• toric contact lenses
• total internal reflection
• transfer lens
• triboluminescence
• triplet
• visible light
• Wollaston prism
• X-ray crystallography
• X-ray diffraction
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